Pulses

Examples

• First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Then 800 pulses of air will reach the ear each second, and the ear drum, being flexible, will respond and will vibrate at the same rate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Puzzledout of breath, all my pulses throbbing in inevitable agitation, I knew not where to turn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In the deepest fountain of my heart the pulses were stirred; around, above, beneath, the clinging Memory as a cloak enwrapt me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My heart throbbed fast; the pulses at my temples beat furiously. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Both the girls felt their faces glow and their pulses throb; both knew they would do no good by rushing down into the _mêlée_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The pulses created in the air by a sounding body are received by the ear and the impulses which they impart to the auditory nerve pass to the brain and we become conscious of a sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Sound possesses a musical quality only when the waves or pulses follow each other at absolutely regular intervals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The stir of the pulses which his nearness always caused was increased by a slight sense of constraint. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Not more jealous shall I be of the blood whose flow moves my pulses than of her happiness and well-being. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Think of her as you thought of the first woman who quickened the pulses within you that the rest of her sex had no art to stir. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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